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Google agrees competition, privacy pledge over onl...
Britain on Friday said it had accepted changes proposed by Google to address competition and customer privacy concerns linked to o...
Another journalist killed in Mexico, the fifth thi...
A journalist was shot dead Thursday in Mexico, the fifth such killing this year in a country notoriously dangerous for reporters.
Apple aims to thwart secret AirTag tracking with t...
Apple on Thursday announced updates to AirTag coin-sized tracking devices to prevent them from being used to secretly track people...
Can't find love? China's party cadres lend a hand
Zhang Shaoge wants to get married, but after struggling to meet the right woman through friends and work -- he has put his heart i...
London police chief resigns after scandals rock fo...
London's police chief announced her resignation Thursday after a string of scandals rocked the British capital's force, including...
New York DA prosecutes highest number of anti-Asia...
A New York prosecutor said Thursday that his team was prosecuting its highest number of anti-Asian hate crimes since a unit was es...
London police chief resigns as scandals rock force
London's police chief announced her resignation Thursday after a string of scandals rocked the British capital's force, including...
Missing Wordle score helps end US hostage ordeal
When Denyse Holt failed to text her daily Wordle score, her daughter knew something must be wrong. Hours later a police SWAT team...
S.Africa's Ramaphosa vows 'decisive steps' to stem...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a state of the nation address on Thursday promising "decisive" action to stem co...
US woman held hostage saved after failing to share...
A woman in the US city of Chicago was rescued from being held hostage for hours, after her failure to share her daily Wordle score...
'12 hurt' in Yemen rebel drone attack on Saudi air...
Twelve people were injured by falling debris Thursday as the Saudi military blew up a Yemeni rebel drone targeting an airport clos...
California suit accuses Tesla of racial segregatio...
California has sued Telsa alleging discrimination and harassment against Black workers at the electric carmaker's San Francisco ar...
France says won't stand for Canada-style 'Freedom...
French police warned Thursday they would prevent so-called "Freedom Convoys" from blockading Paris, as protesters against Covid ru...
French minister condemns headscarf ban for Muslim...
France's gender equality minister threw her support on Thursday behind Muslim women footballers who are seeking to overturn a ban...
Bangladesh cricketer tried in rare adultery case
Bangladeshi national cricketer Nasir Hossain has gone on trial charged with adultery after a man claimed the batsman illegally mar...
Hardline Hindu monk seeks re-election in key India...
India's most populous state went to the polls Thursday in a key popularity test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationali...
Tonga virus cases surge in wake of eruption
The Omicron variant coronavirus entered Tonga for the first time in the wake of last month's volcanic eruption, officials confirme...
'Dutch' and 'Razzlekhan,': US couple behind record...
She's accused of laundering billions of dollars in stolen bitcoin with her husband, but her alleged crimes are likely to be oversh...
Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 92 amid calls for...
The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai has risen to 92 in Madagascar, authorities said Wednesday, as humanitarian organisat...
West Ham fine Zouma for abusing cat as pets are ta...
West Ham on Wednesday fined Kurt Zouma the "maximum amount possible" for mistreating his pet cat as the RSPCA charity said it had...
Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 80
The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai has risen to 80, Madagascar's authorities said Wednesday, releasing data from the re...
Dutch museum grapples with history of Indonesian i...
A bullet-torn shirt and photos of freedom fighters are among the exhibits documenting Indonesia's struggle for independence from t...
'I didn't kill anyone,' Paris terror attacker clai...
The only assailant still alive after the terror attacks that rocked Paris in November 2015 said Wednesday that "I didn't kill anyo...
Fresh hopes for landmark treaty to rescue ocean li...
World leaders are under pressure to conclude years of talks on an agreement to protect open oceans that help sustain life on Earth...
'My work is not done': jailed Duterte critic runs...
From behind bars, Philippine senator and human rights campaigner Leila de Lima is running for re-election in an against-the-odds c...
Hindu pride and Muslim fears overshadow key Indian...
Hindu worshippers from across India gather each morning to pray in Ayodhya, near where a historic mosque was torn down three decad...
Top UN court to rule on massive DR Congo reparatio...
The UN's top court will rule Wednesday in a long-running compensation fight between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, w...
Shaken by fracking quakes, Texas is forced to act
"You get used to it. The walls shake," says Sam, a resident of Midland, a town in west Texas where hydraulic fracturing for oil an...
Witnesses draw damning portrait of US teen shooter...
The parents of a teenager who shot dead four people at a high school in Michigan had ignored the boy's psychiatric problems and hi...
Ottawa protesters against Covid restrictions dig i...
Seated around a campfire flanked by big rigs, with a view of parliament, bleary-eyed protesters on their 12th day of occupying Can...
At least 11 dead in Colombia mudslide
At least 11 people died and 35 were injured in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Colombia on Tuesday, the national disaster...
West Ham start Zouma despite cat kicking shame
Kurt Zouma was named in the West Ham starting line-up for Tuesday's Premier League clash with Watford despite apologising for a vi...
Canadian anti-vax truckers inspire copycat protest...
A protest movement by Canadian truckers angered over Covid vaccine rules has become a rallying point for opponents of pandemic res...
Taliban in Geneva for diplomatic, humanitarian tal...
A Taliban delegation was in Geneva on Tuesday for a week of NGO-hosted talks on humanitarian access and human rights, as crisis-be...
US seizes $3.6 bn of stolen bitcoin in record haul
The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it had recovered more than 94,000 bitcoin stolen in 2016, currently valued at $3.6 bil...
African migrants face racism, violence in Brazil
The brutal murder of a Congolese man at a Rio de Janeiro beach has cast a harsh spotlight on the ordeals African migrants face in...
West Ham's Zouma apologises for abusing cat in sho...
West Ham and France defender Kurt Zouma has apologised after a disturbing video surfaced of him kicking and slapping a cat, with t...
Burkina prosecutors seek 30 years for ex-leader Co...
Military prosecutors on Tuesday called for a 30-year jail term against Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore for the 198...
Ex-pope Benedict XVI asks for forgiveness over abu...
Ex-pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness Tuesday for clerical child sex abuse committed on his watch, but aides rejected allegat...